> > Any static image on a CRT or plasma display
> > for long periods of time will cause burn-in.
>
> I haven't had this happen with my newest TV or newest pair of monitors, so maybe
> they've finally fixed it, but there was a period of time there where burn-in applied
> to LCD monitors as well.
>
> At two different jobs I've been at, I've had coworkers look at me like I had lobsters
> crawling out of my ears when I claimed to be experiencing screen burn after being
> there for about a year. However, their confusion was replaced by astonishment the
> moment I fullscreened an all-grey bitmap, at which point you could clearly see not
> just an outline of the start menu, but of my development environment as well. It's
> hard to believe, but at least some LCDs also get screen burn.
That's a different phenomenon. It has to do with the fact that if you display something on an LCD for a long time, the probability of the liquid crystals getting stuck goes up. You can fix it by displaying flashing black, white, and a few colors, although the worse it is the longer it takes to fix it. It's again a probability thing where the more you 'jostle' the liquid crystals the more likely they are to get 'popped out' of their stuck state.
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